by asilentone 22 Replies latest social family
I can highly recommend a honey we have bought from Echo Glen Honey of White Salmon, Washington. The bees had access to Star Thistle and Meadow Foam blossoms and it is flowery and delicious. Their ph is 800-537-1944.
I don't know anything about building up a resistance to out of state old wives tails.
38 - 26- 36 as raw as it cums oops! comes
Straight from the insane, white supremacist, Nazi family that keeps the bees. I don't recommend it lightly. I walk where deeminz fear to tread. LOL.
Let me see if I can find you their distributor.
My all time favorite raw honey is white tupelo honey. If you have found a source of pure white tupelo honey, you'll know it.
Pure white tupelo honey will NOT granulate. It is even an acceptable sweetener for some diabetic patients.
My grandfather was an expert beekeeper and he always loved white tupelo honey the best. He said it was the toughest honey to make in the States; apparently you have to time several stages of production and collection just right in order to get pure white tupelo.
It depends on its use.
For a general purpose sweetener- Clover Honey.
For a dip with pita bread- Eucalyptus Honey.
For sweetening coffee- Buckwheat Honey.
BA- Most other honeys are in the same league as clover honey, and not worth the added expense.
Blackberry Blossom Honey.
Pardon my ignorance, but....
is there really that much of a difference? What do you use it in?
My dad raised honeybees. He generally planted 5-7 acres of red and white clover for them. But we also had apple orchards and cherry orchards and a vineyard. We never raised buckwheat but did raise winter wheat, corn, soybeans, and alfalfa. There really wasn't much of a variation in taste. I've tasted honey from all over and can't really distinguish a big difference.
This tupelo white honey intrigues me, as you say it doesn't granulate? What do the bees eat? Is this a regional honey? I know that, when my clover honey granulates, I put it in a pan of hot water and it liquifies again. I thought that was true for all honey.
StAnn
my faves are
clover honey and eucaluptus its great tasting especially with peanut butter. yummy
orangefatcat
honey with peanut butter? I'll have to try that.
I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned already, but if you have allergies at all, find a local beekeeper and eat LOCAL honey. Supposedly, this is a great help to overcome allergies to your local flora, like a "honey vaccination" against regional pollen. If that is something you are looking for, you would want it to be a local wildflower honey.
Oh! Edited to say that Confucious did mention this! Well then, hear hear! If it is an old wive's tale, they have told many, many tales that were true...
